AFTER 11 years of being a health care provider, a Dr Mohd Shaiful Nizam by no means anticipated to be within the place he was in late final month.
Taking to his Twitter account, the physician shared his expertise of working on a affected person with a salivatary gland tumour the scale of a small watermelon.
According to Shaiful, the expansion weighed virtually 3kg.
“The growth on the patient’s neck was there for almost eight years,” he stated.
“In the early stages, it was as small as 4cm by 5cm. But it had grown to almost 20cm by 30cm.”
The physician additionally defined that the rationale the affected person lastly sought medical assist was as a result of how the expansion was affecting his non secular prayers.
For the operation, a head and neck surgeon guide and his crew had been current. Even although the surgical procedure lasted 5 hours, it was executed with none severe problems.
As parting phrases on the Twitter thread, the nice physician suggested readers to get knowledgeable checkup within the occasion of a progress or tumour.
“Surgery in the early stage (of a small growth) lowers the risk of damage to the blood flow, nerves and anatomy close to the growth site. The healing process will also be faster.”
Let this be a lesson to those that keep away from going for a well being checkup!